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"Lab-dish tests of a soil bacterium have shown that it could act as a \"very selective killer\" of the germ that causes tuberculosis.<br /><br />Discovered nearly 60 years ago, Pyridomycin is a natural antibiotic exuded by the bacterium Streptomyces pyridomyceticus. It has shown promise as a candidate for fighting a drug-resistant strain of TB, according to researchers in Switzerland, the <a href=\"http://www.nydailynews.com/\">New York Daily News</a> reports.<br /><br />The World Health Organization reported that approximately 500,000 of the eight to nine million people infected with TB each year have a strain resistant to most drugs.<br /><br />Pyridomcycin could help the by inhibiting a single gene called InHA that in mutant strains helps the TB microbe thwart isoniazid drugs, the <a href=\"http://www.nydailynews.com/\">New York Daily News</a> reports.<br /><br />Germs exposed to pyridomycin became depleted in fatty acids, which are necessary in building the bacterial cell wall.<br /><br />\"Nature's antibiotic, pyridomycin, is a very selective killer of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis in humans,\" Stewart Cole, a professor at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausance in Switzerland, said, the <a href=\"http://www.nydailynews.com/\">New York Daily News</a> reports. \"It is also active against mycobacteria that have developed resistance to front-line drug treatments such as isoniazid.\"<br /><br />The study was published in the European Molecular Biology Organization's EMBO Molecular Medicine.<br /><br />Pyridomhycin was first identified as a potential agent against TB in 1953 by Japanese scientists."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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